Signatures: A-G⁶ (G6=blank)

Chancery folio; 17 lines per page, 144 x 89 mm; woodcut diagrams; initial spaces without guide letters

Contains only the Sacro Bosco tract without the Peurbach or Regiomontanus

Zoltan Haraszti posits a date of 1498 and suggests that Wolfgang Stöckel may have been the printer. See: Haraszti, Zoltan. More books: the bulletin of the Boston Public Library (Feb. 1941), p. 67-70.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, 424

Incunabula short title catalogue, ij00424000

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.94 with folded map bound-in after the final (blank) leaf. Leaf dimensions: 202 x 142 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.94 with booklpate of the BPL Bowditch Fund. Description from More Books/BPL Quarterly pasted to inside of lower cover. Text heavily annotated throughout in an early hand. Purchased March, 1938.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.94 quarterbound in modern vellum and gray pulled paste paper with no label on the spine.

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